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Huge thank you to all of our supporters, volunteers, vendors, sponsors, partners, friends, family & community for a beautiful & successful event this year! We can’t wait for next year — until then, enjoy some event pictures below!

All photos courtesy of Mayra Linares Photography. We are so grateful to Mayra for capturing the joy & spirit of our 27th annual benefit to support our work!

ALL TICKET SALES GO DIRECTLY TO SUPPORTING SURVIVORS IN OUR COMMUNITY!

Known for years as Madison's most relaxed fundraiser, Java Jive is RCC’s only true fundraising event of the year. It allows us to continue to serve survivors and their support people and to keep all of our services FREE and accessible to all who need them. 

By buying a ticket, you are DIRECTLY supporting services and programs that empower survivors and work to prevent sexual violence in our community, including:  Crisis intervention services, 24 hour Helpline in English & Spanish, Mental Health Therapy, CCS (Comprehensive Community Services), Legal & Medical Advocacy, Free emergency contraception and sexual health supplies, Youth Outreach & Prevention Education, GameChangers Youth Activism (@rccgamechangers), Safer Bar Programming (@rccsaferbar), Chimera Self-Defense, and more!

This is one of the easiest and most fun ways you can show your support for survivors, for the work that we do, and to make a difference in your community! Even if you can't make it to the event, buying a ticket as a donation, or donating directly, means everything.

Entertainment.

  • Sabrina Madison, Host

    Sabrina “Heymiss Progress” is an award-winning entrepreneur in the Madison community and founder of The Progress Center for Black Women. She is known as an inspirational leader and connector who brings people together and makes big things happen.

    Sabrina is also a community organizer, poet, master collaborator and a proud mother of SaVance, a brilliant young man.

    Under the Heymiss Progress brand she’s created the Black Women’s Leadership Conference, the Conversation Mixtape, the Black Business Expo, the Black Excellence Youth Conference,.

    Her vision for the Progress Center for Black Women is to create a Madison community where Black women proliferate as powerful CEOs, owners of local shops and leaders in their own right.

  • Betsy Ezell, Nick Moran & Richard Hildner Trio

    This fantastic trio of ultra-talented Madison-based musicians Betsy Ezell, Nick Moran & Richard Hildner will be playing smooth acoustic sounds of Bossa Nova and classic Jazz standards.

  • DJ Pearl Marshall

    Madison native Pearl Marshall celebrates a wide range of genres through diverse rhythms and unexpected mash ups. She’s been making dance floors move since 2019 and you can find her regularly at The Rigby, Nattspil, and other groovy establishments. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook to find out where she’s playing next!

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